Serious question: What viable options do they have besides being acquired?
They have $4.2 billion in revenue per quarter, that's huge, and they still have a lot of users. They could easily scale back their ambitions and become very profitable, abandon the playbook, reduce their workforce, move focus to East Asia, and keep milking every cent out of the old-fashioned phones they kept pumping out long after Apple ate their lunch.
http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rjrfn/the_budget_5_b...
Amusingly this particular cut was actually a private member proposal from the NDP (the left-most mainstream party).